Exhale Fully

{A Written Practice}

Exhale Fully

Empty the lungs

If your sympathetic system is active– which you would know because you feel either some version of anxious or some version of angry– you are not exhaling fully. This practice simply involves taking a few minutes to make sure that you are fully emptying your lungs by exhaling fully and pushing all of the air out.

Related Practices:

See Learn to Breathe, Meditate, Meditate in Nature, Sit Spot, Inhale, and Savor Delicious Aromas.

Who taught us this?

Our friend, mindfulness teacher Fleet Maull, reminded us of this simple technique for deepening breath into the belly.

Who taught us this?

We learned this from many people, and it has become one of the signature elements of our work, which looks to understand the neurophysiological drivers of mental momentum in the body. This unites strands of indigenous awareness with the Polyvagal Theory, marrying ancient ancestral awareness practices with the cutting-edge of neurophysiology

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